The College offers short-term add-on courses to supplement learning in art, culture, science and awareness building programmes.
Women
and Empowerment
Coordinator:
Dr Vinita
Chandra
Course
Description:
The
course will cover
three broad areas:
-
The
History
of
Women's
Movements:
An
awareness
of
women's
movements
is
essential
to
the
study
of
women's
empowerment
because
it
traces
the
trajectory
of
rights
women
take
for
granted
today.
Women's
movements
have
historically
addressed
a
variety
of
issues,
but
the
struggle
is
always
for
gaining
rights,
powers
and
equal
opportunities.
The
movement
has
done
this
by
challenging
stereotypes,
by
rediscovering
and
acknowledging
historically
suppressed
women's
voices,
and
by
attempting
to
redefine
the
idea
of
'woman'.
-
Representations
of
Women:
This
area
of
study
will
examine
the
construction
of
images
of
women
by
mainstream
culture
and
power
structures.
We
will
look
at
the
ways
in
which
women
(as
well
as
men)
are
imprisoned
by
the
image
that
is
created
of
them
and
the
role
that
is
scripted
for
them.
Women
who
deviate
from
this
role
have,
in
the
past,
been
seen
as
witches.
The
course
will
look
at
cinema,
literature,
and
forms
of
popular
media,
to
determine
the
motives
behind
the
stereotypical
representations
of
women.
How
does
the
challenge
to
these
images
translate
into
not
only
dismantling
stereotypes
but
also
evolving
new
representations?
-
Theories
of
Feminism:
The
course
will
familiarise
students
with
the
terms
and
ideas
of
resistance
and
interrogation
of
dominant
cultures
-
alternatives
posited
by
feminist
theories.
Feminism
as
a
study
has
applied
itself
to
dismantling
patriarchal
structures
in
other
disciplines
such
as
psychoanalysis,
medicine,
anthropology
and
literature.
This
course
will
give
an
overview
of
the
different
debates
in
feminism,
such
as
materialist
feminism,
psychoanalytical
feminism
and
essentialist
feminism.
